Recent Purchases

Each week I've been making a few small purchases toward prettying up my home and adding to Christmas. Yes, I said Christmas but that's a whole other post (that will be coming very soon).This week I ended up in Primark and Store Twenty One. Now, I'm a menace when it comes to these shops. Once I walk through the door I get a bad case of the loon and end up buying too much but I rarely ever regret a purchase.

So in Store Twenty One I picked up three wicker baskets with cream linen lining. I'll be using the medium sized for storage and the large and small as two Christmas hampers that I plan to put together for my best friend and her husband. Every year all of her gifts I've accumulated end up wrapped in a large gift bag which is usually over filled but this year I got organised and thought a re-usable wicker basket would be much more chic. The hanging bottles were reduced to £1 each so naturally I bought four. I plan to fill them with baby's breath and I'll probably remove the stickers on the front but they'd just look gorgeous hung up on my banister which I plan to try out this week. The pink scuffed up vase is a favourite and for £2 I couldn't resist as I think it would look wonderful in my office to hold some flowers on the desk and I may even pop back soon to see if they have more. I'm pretty sure the lavender scented candle is too pretty to light but for 50p, again, I couldn't resist and as for the Lagerfeld pug tote? £1! Champagne and Elderflower tea lights to dot around the house for a mere £1 were the final item to hit my bag in Primark and they're seriously beautiful. Primark, you lure me in to have me leaving with far too much.

What have you been buying lately?